Equity implications of net zero visions

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The trouble with negative emissions

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Betting on negative emissions

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Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment

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Alternative pathways to the 1.5 °C target reduce the need for negative emission technologies

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Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions

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Net-zero emissions targets are vague: three ways to fix

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AMBITION AND DIFFERENTIATION IN THE 2015 PARIS AGREEMENT: INTERPRETATIVE POSSIBILITIES AND UNDERLYING POLITICS

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The Two Sides of the Paris Climate Agreement

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Two Kinds of Climate Justice: Avoiding Harm and Sharing Burdens

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Designing Border Carbon Adjustments for Enhanced Climate Action

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Unilateral climate policy design: Efficiency and equity implications of alternative instruments to reduce carbon leakage

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The political economy of negative emissions technologies: consequences for international policy design

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Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement

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Fair-share carbon dioxide removal increases major emitter responsibility

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Potential implications of carbon dioxide removal for the sustainable development goals

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Quantification of an efficiency–sovereignty trade-off in climate policy

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Moving toward Net-Zero Emissions Requires New Alliances for Carbon Dioxide Removal

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Climate change and ethics

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Who Is Paying for Carbon Dioxide Removal? Designing Policy Instruments for Mobilizing Negative Emissions Technologies

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Cascading biases against poorer countries

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The ethics of negative emissions

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Climate finance for developing country mitigation: blessing or curse?

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Climate dreaming: negative emissions, risk transfer, and irreversibility

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Policy instruments for limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C – can humanity rise to the challenge?

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A Guide for the Concerned: Guidance on the Elaboration and Implementation of Border Carbon AdjustmentPreprint

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Subsistence protection and mitigation ambition: Necessities, economic and climatic

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How global climate policy could affect competitiveness

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Mitigation gambles: uncertainty, urgency and the last gamble possible

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On the Permissibility (Or Otherwise) of Negative Emissions

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Carbon Leakage, Consumption, and Trade

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The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene

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Putting climate change at the heart of education: Is England's strategy a placebo for policy?

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Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 in aqueous phase using amino-functionalized MOFs loaded with hydroxy-functionalized graphene quantum dots

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Long-term national climate strategies bet on forests and soils to reach net-zero

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Climate policy for a net-zero future: ten recommendations for Direct Air Capture

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Reviewing the sociotechnical dynamics of carbon removal

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International carbon markets for carbon dioxide removal

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The ABC of Governance Principles for Carbon Dioxide Removal Policy

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The Evaluation of Carbon Farming Strategies in Organic Vegetable Cultivation

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The Role of Corporates in Governing Carbon Dioxide Removal: Outlining a Research Agenda

Battersby, F., Heap, R., Gray, A. C., Workman, M. H. W., & Strivens, F. (2022) · Frontiers in Climate · doi:10.3389/fclim.2022.686762 · Cited by 27 · see citing works

The political economy of carbon border adjustment in the EU

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Toward the effective and fair funding of CO2 removal technologies

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Promoting the Achievement of Carbon Neutrality Targets: Systematic Review of Research Dimensions and Measure Methods on Carbon Equity in China

Tian, Y., & Pang, J. (2024) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c09782 · Cited by 23 · see citing works

CCS under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

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Undone science in climate interventions: Contrasting and contesting anticipatory assessments by expert networks

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Taking stock of carbon dioxide removal policy in emerging economies: developments in Brazil, China, and India

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Evaluating long-term low emission development strategies and implications for the remaining global carbon budget

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An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal

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Justice in benefitting from carbon removal

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The NET effect: negative emissions technologies and the need–efficiency trade-off

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Social Ecological Systems in Flux

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Exploring key dimensions of policy instruments for carbon dioxide removal

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From the Rainforest to the Fjords: examining equity in carbon capture and storage climate policy

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Hope, Pessimism, and the Shape of a Just Climate Future

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Varied drivers for reducing CO2 emissions in countries with legislated carbon neutrality targets: a Kaya identity clustering analysis

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Sustainable Transformation of Business and Finance: A Democratic Challenge in An Age of Climate Change and Artificial IntelligencePreprint

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Science-based targets for higher education? Evaluating alignment between Ivy+ climate action plans and the Science-Based Targets initiative’s net-zero standards

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Fairness und Eigeninteresse im internationalen Klimaschutz

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Net Zero Carbon Buildings: Progress and Challenges in South Africa

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The Case Against Climate Doom

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Challenges, barriers and solutions in achieving net zero

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The ethics of carbon dioxide removal

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Climate Engineering

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A Differential Game Study in the Global Carbon Reduction Actions

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Low-cost thermal reshaping of carbon fibre/PEEK thick sections: Experiments and simulations

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Assessing fair effort-sharing of Paris-compliant mitigation futures in transport

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The Little Book of Design Policy for Equitable Net Zero

Mullagh, L. (2022) · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University)

Eco-equalities for a Just Transition to Net Zero: Applying an equality mainstreaming framework

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Governing Net Zero Carbon Removals to Avoid Entrenching Inequities

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The political economy of net-zero transitions: Policy drivers, barriers, and justice benefits to decarbonization in eight carbon-neutral countries

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Neutralizing the Atmosphere

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